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Tantric Revisionings: New Understanding of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion
Tantric Revisionings New Understanding of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion Author:Geoffrey Samuel Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Budhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Geoffrey Samule adopts an historically and textually informed anthropoliogical approach, seeking to locate and undrstand religion in its social and cultural context. The qu... more »estion of the relation between 'popular' (folk, domestic, village, monastic) religion and elite (Literary, textual, monastic) religion forms a recurring theme through these studies.« less